In this strategy, we share our plans for the immediate implementation of the information remedies, and our thinking for the period beyond. The strategy is very much the product of dialogue with our members and stakeholders, as we seek an approach that will achieve the improvements needed by patients while being deliverable and valuable to the industry.

The latter part of this document is an implementation plan that goes into some detail on the data required and how this will be used to produce the performance measures specified up to 2017. This is intended as a reference, and explores some of the issues we will face and the decisions we have taken.